Monthly Archives: July 2009
The Jigsaw Puzzle of Life
Just found out if you google DJ Crusoe my blog is the first to appear. Awesome! And now for some rambling thoughts…. Sometimes I feel like my life is a jig saw puzzle and I’m trying to work out how to fit all the pieces in. Each piece placed into the jig-saw represents a choice &hellip Continue reading
Day 30 23rd July 2009 Crusoe’s Last Post In Asia
As the name suggests this is my last post in Asia as tomorrow at 6am a taxi will come to pick me up from my hostel to take me to the airport. Part of me doesn’t want to go and return to my normal life but then again, I realise that I will never return &hellip Continue reading
Day 29 22nd July 2009
Soft cotton sheets wrapped around me, I gently stirred from a delicious sleep in my luxury hotel in the heart of Khao San road, Bangkok. The cold had woken me up in the night as I’d managed to turn the air conditioning up too high. A bit of shopping and a street breakfast later I &hellip Continue reading
Day 28 21st July 2009
My transport to Bangkok had been arranged to pick me up from the hotel at approximately 7.30 am. Didn’t want to be late so ran down to the lobby and was there waiting at 7.29. Feeling pleased with myself I sat down to wait in the lobby, expecting someone any minute. Sure enough a bus &hellip Continue reading
Day 27 19th July 2009 Ankor Wat
Woke up at 6.30 to go and meet my new friend George in the foyer. At 7am our Tuk Tuk driver was awaiting us and climbing aboard we set off for Ankor Wat. Some background info on Ankor Wat: Angkor Wat is a temple complex at Ankor, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th &hellip Continue reading
Day 26 19th July 2009 Travelling from Saigon to Cambodia (Siem Reap)
Left Vietnam early in the morning, struggling to stay awake. A 12 hour journey awaits me with but 1 stop for 20 minutes. Sleep for the first 2 hours and find myself in conversation shortly after with George, a retired American who travels since the death of his wife, 10 years ago. George is anything &hellip Continue reading
Day 25 18th July 2009 Last night in Saigon Vietnam
Saturday mornings are always great to lie in bed and not do anything. This is not case for me however today as I’ve arranged to meet Khoa at 7am to get my motorbike helmet back that I’d left on my drunken adventures. Crawl out of bed cursing audibly realising I’ve slept through my alarms tripping &hellip Continue reading
Day 24 17th July 2009
Woke up hungover (no surprises there) and found that I was alone in my dormitory. I somehow doubt that my 8 room-mates were quiet as the usual alarm calls blare out at ungodly hours at every dorm room, but more likely I was so exhausted even if all the Vietnamese pop stars in the world had &hellip Continue reading